The painter Westover comes to a poor hill farm under a New England mountain shaped like a sleeping lion, and meets the Durgin family and their rough, clever son Jeff. Over the years Jeff goes to Harvard, turns the farm into a thriving summer resort and courts several women, while Westover watches and wonders whether he is a scoundrel or simply a new kind of American.
Howells at his most searching, a 1897 study of ambition and character for readers of American realism. Download the free EPUB.